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One Million Meals for Haiti
Post by Champaign411 | Monday, April 26 @ 2:13pm
The old Hobby Lobby space at Champaign Village was a very happy place to be Sunday afternoon, as volunteers approached their goal of 1 million meals packaged for Haiti ahead of schedule.
Kris Fuqua, administrator of the Salvation Army of Champaign County, said a total of 1,012,640 meals were packaged by 5,119 volunteers from Champaign County and neighboring counties on Saturday and Sunday.
"Everybody I have talked to has told me they had a great time," Fuqua said. "You can feel the energy throughout the building. It's truly a modern-day miracle."
(Quotes first printed in the News-Gazette.)
Kris Fuqua, administrator of the Salvation Army of Champaign County, said a total of 1,012,640 meals were packaged by 5,119 volunteers from Champaign County and neighboring counties on Saturday and Sunday.
"Everybody I have talked to has told me they had a great time," Fuqua said. "You can feel the energy throughout the building. It's truly a modern-day miracle."
(Quotes first printed in the News-Gazette.)